Arsenic and Clam Chowder : Murder in Gilded Age New York.
Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010. |
Series: | Excelsior Editions Ser.
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Arsenic and Clam Chowder Murder in Gilded Age New York
- Contents
- CHAPTER ONE: The Death of Evelina Bliss
- CHAPTER TWO: The New York World
- CHAPTER THREE: Mary Alice Almont of the New York Livingstons
- CHAPTER FOUR: Promises Breached
- CHAPTER FIVE: In the Tombs
- CHAPTER SIX: Twelve Good Men and True
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Opening of the People's Case
- CHAPTER EIGHT: The People Rest
- CHAPTER NINE: The Defense
- CHAPTER TEN: Decision
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Afterwards
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Reasonable Doubt and Judicial Murder
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index.